Examining Aspects Of Sexualities And The Self

Edited by Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova, Sabrina Sahli Examining Aspects of Sexualities and the Self Critical Issues Series Editors Dr Robert Fisher Dr Nancy Billias Advisory Board Dr Alejandro Cervantes-Carson Dr Peter Mario Kreuter Professor Margaret Chatterjee Martin McGoldrick Dr Wayne Cristaudo Revd Stephen Morris Mira Crouch Professor John Parry Dr Phil Fitzsimmons Paul Reynolds Professor Asa Kasher Professor Peter Twohig Owen Kelly Professor S Ram Vemuri Revd Dr Kenneth Wilson, O.B.E A Critical Issues research and publications project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ The Transformations Hub ‘Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices’ Examining Aspects of Sexualities and the Self Edited by Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova, Sabrina Sahli Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford, United Kingdom © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2010 http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ The Inter-Disciplinary Press is part of Inter-Disciplinary.Net – a global network for research and publishing. The Inter-Disciplinary Press aims to promote and encourage the kind of work which is collaborative, innovative, imaginative, and which provides an exemplar for inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of Inter-Disciplinary Press. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire. OX29 8HR, United Kingdom. +44 (0)1993 882087 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-84888-020-7 First published in the United Kingdom in eBook format in 2009. First Edition. Table of Contents Preface Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova &Sabrina Sahli PART I Examining Aspects of Homosexuality Specifics of the Contemporary Czech Homosexual Community: History, Evolution and Ambivalences Zdeněk Sloboda Recognition and Regulation of Same-sex Couples in the United Kingdom: An Exploratory Study of Civil Partnerships Mike Thomas PART II vii 3 21 Forms of Resistance to the Organisation’s Symbolic Heteronormative Order Beatrice Gusmano 31 Deconstructing Sexual Identities in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View Michaela Pňačeková 45 Examining Aspects of Heterosexuality What Drives the Human Sex Drive? Peering into the Portals of Virtual Sex Derrell Cox II 59 Uncomfortable Territory? The Relationship Between Gender, Intoxication and Rape Gemma Clarke 69 Sex in Transition: Anti-Sexuality and the Church in Post-Communist Poland Alicja A. Gescinska 87 The Embodiment of Female Sexual Pleasure: Body as Object and Body as Instrument Fiona McQueen 95 PART III Narrative Discourses Spatial Sexualities: The Private, the Social, and the Distinctively Deadly in Othello on Screen Eleni Pilla 111 Feminine but Macho: Erotic Reshaping of the Self in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album Illaria Ricci 119 I Simply am Not There: Sadism and (the Lack Of) Subjectivity in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho Sabrina Sahli 129 Sade’s Doctrine of Creative Destruction Caleb Heldt 141 Memory, Excess & the Fictional Self Andrew Markham 153 Preface Gemma Clarke, Fiona McQueen, Michaela Pnacekova & Sabrina Sahli ***** In PART I: Examining Aspects of Homosexuality, the four chapters examine constructions and deconstructions of homosexuality and its meanings in various settings as well as from variou